The science of genetics has been revolutionized in recent years by the techniques of
molecular biology, which make it possible to elucidate complex physiological functions at …

Introduction There has been a veritable explosion of projects in recent years aiming to
calculate genetic distances between domesticated breeds of animals and the number of …

The population structure and genetic diversity of 57 European and Middle Eastern marginal
and cosmopolitan sheep breeds from 15 countries were analysed by typing 31 microsatellite …

This study was undertaken to determine the genetic structure, evolutionary relationships,
and the genetic diversity among 18 local cattle breeds from Spain, Portugal, and France …

During the past decade a large number of genetic diversity studies in domestic livestock
based on microsatellite loci was carried out all over the world. A survey among research …

In this article coefficients of kinship between and within populations are proposed as a tool
to assess genetic diversity for conservation of genetic variation. However, pedigree‐based …

To evaluate the Weitzman approach for assessing alternative conservation strategies for
breed (population) diversity, we used genetic distance measures between 49 African cattle …

The Iberian breed is the most important pig population of the Mediterranean type. The
genetic structure of two strains (Torbiscal and Guadyerbas) and three varieties (Retinto …

We compared the genetic diversity and distance among six German draught horse breeds to
wild (Przewalski's Horse), primitive (Icelandic Horse, Sorraia Horse, Exmoor Pony) or riding …

In the context of domestic animal diversity, the term" breed" is conventionally used for all
recognized populations. There are in total about 5000 breeds, a small proportion of which …